Lamu Mokowe fish landing hits 63.7% as Njagi cites 3,000 fishers
Key points
- The fish landing project at Mokowe, Lamu, plus neighbouring Beach Management Units, is 63.7% complete, Eastleigh Voice reported on 25 August 2026.
- Blue Economy Principal Secretary Betsy Njagi said about 3,000 fishermen should benefit directly and more than 15,000 people in surrounding communities once it is done.
- She listed old gaps: poor handling and storage, weak market links, little value addition, and post-harvest losses that cut fisher income.
- The State Department for Blue Economy and Fisheries (Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs) is the implementing house. No handover date is in this account.
At Mokowe the jetty is no longer a drawing. Eastleigh Voice, on Tuesday 25 August 2026, put the Lamu fish landing job — Mokowe and neighbouring Beach Management Units — at 63.7 per cent complete.
Blue Economy Principal Secretary Betsy Njagi is the voice on the file. Direct benefit, the project paper says: about 3,000 fishermen. Wider community: more than 15,000 people. For years, she said, Lamu’s catch has met bad ice, thin storage, weak buyer links and almost no processing, so money leaks after the boat is in. The landing site is meant to give a place to handle and sell fish, cut post-harvest loss and lift quality on the way to the market. The implementing office is the State Department for Blue Economy and Fisheries under the Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs. Neighbouring BMUs are in the same envelope, so the 63.7 per cent is a combined physical progress figure, not a single warehouse. What this report does not give: the contract sum, the contractor, the original completion date, or how many cold-rooms actually sit on the slab today. A percentage on a site visit is not a fisherman’s extra shilling. County and the PS still need a remaining-works list — ice, auction floor, road, power — before 15,000 people can be counted as served.
Publish the remaining 36.3 per cent
63.7 per cent needs a bill of quantities for the rest. BMUs should see that list, not only the percentage.
Agriculture desk: Agriculture. Verified 63.7%, Mokowe/BMU scope, 3,000/15,000 and Njagi from Eastleigh Voice.
Blue Economy should post the contract and the handover month. Lamu County should name the BMUs in the package.
Fishers at Mokowe should ask who will run the ice plant the day the ribbon is cut.
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Based on Eastleigh Voice reporting of Njagi’s Lamu briefing. Cost and completion date were not in that account.
